Russell and his brothers, Nahum Russell and Clement Russell, manufactured threshing machines and other agricultural implements in Massillon. Russell & Company, formed in 1848 by Charles. Attendees voted to establish the Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), which held its first meeting the following year in Ravenna. The meeting was held in Massillon Baptist Chapel. The president of the convention was Hannah Tracy Cutler. The Ohio Women's Convention met at Massillon on May 27, 1852. In 1868, Massillon incorporated as a city when the populated reached 5,000. Massillon incorporated as a village in 1853. The first telegraph lines would reach Massillon in 1847, and the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad would extend its rails to Massillon in 1852. Massillon quickly became a major port town along the canal route, known as the Port of Massillon, following the canal's completion in the 1832. Marshall Wellman was the grandfather of the American author Jack London. Among the leading merchants were the Wellman brothers Hiram and Marshall. The canal section spanning from Cleveland to Massillon was completed in 1828. The town plat was established along the east bank of the Tuscarawas River, which was the surveyed route for the Ohio and Erie Canal being constructed to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River. Duncan, known as the city's founder, named the town after Jean Baptiste Massillon, a French Catholic bishop, at the request of his wife. James Duncan of New Hampshire first settled in Kendal before recording the plot for Massillon on December 6, 1826. The original settlement of Kendal was founded in 1812 by Thomas Rotch, a Quaker originally of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. Ohio and Erie Canal in Massillon at the turn of the century
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